Legal Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Maron Marvel's devoted attorneys and staff work in synchrony to climb higher, smarter, and faster to elevate national litigation risk management. Our lawyers are focused on winning by being fearless, loyal, efficient, and steadfast. We are equally committed to making the world and legal profession better through dedicated DEI, community service, and attorney development work.

From the start, Maron Marvel attorneys had a passion for superior work product, a distinctive culture rooted in mass tort litigation, and an obsession with exceptional client service. Today, with over 100 attorneys in 14offices in 12states, Maron Marvel is best-in-show in national litigation risk management and mass tort defense. The firm serves as national, regional, and trial counsel to Fortune 500 companies with multiple operations located in the most dangerous plaintiff jurisdictions in the country. Maron Marvel's clients come from the energy, construction, manufacturing, technology, transportation, insurance, and liability-related industries. In addition to mass toxic torts, the firm also offers legal services concerning commercial disputes and liability-related defense.

Maron Marvel has an immediate opening for a legal assistant to join its Houston office.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Assist in preparing a variety of litigation documents, such as pleadings, motions, briefs, and other related documents.
• Assist in filing legal documents with state and federal courts, including service of all documents upon parties and the Court, where required.
• Assist in the preparation and service of discovery and document productions.
• Track deposition calendar and maintain index of deposition summary memoranda.
• May be required to schedule and coordinate depositions, mediations, and other legal proceedings with court reporters, witnesses, outside counsel, opposing counsel and other parties, and maintain docket of litigation cases
• Experience handling multiple attorneys with full caseloads
• Assist with client engagement and retention, including preparation of engagement letter, conflict check, conflict waivers, and submitting information to open matters
• Provide overflow assistance as requested from different offices

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